-elect

See also: elect

English

Etymology

From elect.

Suffix

-elect

1. Used after a title to indicate that the person has been elected to hold the title, but has not yet officially taken it.

   Senator-elect Li will be sworn in next month.

Derived terms

• champion-elect
• president-elect
• Vice-President-elect

 

Translations

not yet inaugurated

• Finnish: vastavalittu, tuleva (fi)
• Hungarian: megválasztott (hu), várományos (hu)
• Shan: လောင်း
• Swedish: vald (sv)
• Vietnamese: tân cử (vi)

Further reading

• -elect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia